id:			97141
accession number:	1916.780
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.780
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Sketch for a Ceiling, 1750s. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770). Oil on canvas; framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.780

title:				Sketch for a Ceiling
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creation date:			1750s
creation date earliest:		1750
creation date latest:		1759
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creditline:			Holden Collection
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culture:	Italy, 18th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - Italian 18th Century
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 51.5 x 43 x 6.5 cm (20 1/4 x 16 15/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 41 x 34 cm (16 1/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

	title:		Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
	opening date:   1934-11-09T05:00:00
	<i>Art of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 9-December 2, 1934).

	title:		The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition
	opening date:   1936-06-26T04:00:00
	<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

	title:		The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates
	opening date:   1978-01-08T05:00:00
	<i>The Tiepolos: Painters to Princes and Prelates</i>. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (January 8-February 19, 1978); Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, OH, Springfield, OH (March 19-May 7, 1978).

	title:		Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism
	opening date:   1980-02-19T05:00:00
	<i>Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1912: "Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection," catalogue: Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vII, no.10 (October 1912), cat. no. 26 (author, bryson Burroughs).', 'opening_date': '1912-10-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, 1916: "The Inaugrual Exhibition of CMA," cat. no. 37.', 'opening_date': '1916-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversry Exhibition," cat. no. 37.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, 1936: "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition" cat. no. 108.', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Birmingham, Alabama, Museum of Fine Art, 1978: "The Tiepolos, Painters to Princes and Prelates," ct. no. 22, illus. p. 79; Springfield (Mass.) Museum of Fine Arts,', 'opening_date': '1978-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Oberlin, OH, Allen Memorial Art Museum, October 29-December 15, 1991: "Artin the Age of Mozart,"', 'opening_date': '1991-10-29T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Miner K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris
	date: 1858    
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	Mrs. Liberty E. Holden
	date: 1884    
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	Holden Collection
	date: 1916    
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	1858  Miner K. Kellogg, 1814-1889 (Paris, France)
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	1884-1916  Mrs.Liberty E. Holden (Cleveland, Ohio), by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.
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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 424; Mentioned: p. 425
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	Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. <em>Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 35-36, cat. no. 38
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n45

	"An Oil Sketch for a Ceiling Decoration by Tiepolo." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>19, no.7 (July 1932): 115-117
	page number: 	Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: 115-117
	url:		jstor.org/stable/25137487

	Johnson, Mark M. <em>Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 85, p 69, Reproduced
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